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The Dark Hour · Beat 113 · permalink

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45:26–45:28 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:2745:27

Play from 45:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 282–282. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a cap, dark coat, and scarf visible
  • man in a dark uniform with a peaked cap visible
  • woman wearing a light blouse and plaid skirt visible
Seen
{'item': 'potted plants', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'doorway', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cap', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'uniform with peaked cap', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'plaid skirt', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, domestic space; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films

A man in a cap and coat stands beside a uniformed officer while a woman in a dress looks on; all three are outdoors near a doorway and potted plants. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from The Dark Hour (1936) at 45:27 (passage 45:26–45:28); US record: No renewal found

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